That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
Stewart CopelandIn a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
Stewart CopelandMusic has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
Stewart CopelandThe great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
Stewart Copeland